exported variable not persisted after script execution
- by Daniele
I'm facing a wierd issue.
I've a vm with solaris 11, and trying to write some bash scripts.
if, on the shell, I type :
export TEST=aaa
and subsequently run:
set
I correctly see a new environment variable named TEST whose value is aaa.
If, however I do basically the same thing in a script. when the script terminates, I do not see the variable set.
To make a concrete example, if in a file test.sh I have:
#!/usr/bin/bash
echo 1: $TEST #variable not defined yet, expect to print only 1:
echo 2: $USER
TEST=sss
echo 3: $TEST
export TEST
echo 4: $TEST
it prints:
1:
2: daniele
3: sss
4: sss
and after its execution, TEST is not set in the shell.
Am I missing something?
I tried both to do export TEST=sss and the separate variable set/export with no difference.
